Benjamin Sutton

Benjamin Sutton is the Editor, Americas of The Art Newspaper.

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George Rickey sculpture partially collapses outside News Corp's New York headquarters

One of the work’s two hoop-like pendulums fell off outside the Manhattan offices of the Wall Street Journal publisher

Rothko Chapel in Houston closes due to hurricane damage

The popular pilgrimage site for fans of Abstract Expressionism was damaged during Hurricane Beryl last month

Amid $33m renovation project, Bronx Museum’s executive director departs to lead MFA St Petersburg

Klaudio Rodriguez, who has led the Bronx Museum since 2020, will take on his new role in Florida in October

Heavy rains cause partial collapse of ancient pyramid in Mexico

Authorities said that significant precipitation amid a severe drought had undermined the Purépecha structure at Ihuatzio

Harvard University will not rename its Arthur M. Sackler Museum

The decision follows a years-long campaign by activists who urged Harvard to distance itself from the Sackler family over its ties to the opioid epidemic

Activist and journalist charged with hate crimes over vandalism at Brooklyn Museum leaders’ homes

The charges stem from incidents in June, when activists sprayed red paint on the museum officials’ homes as a pro-Palestine protest

Florida man pleads guilty to bombing satirical statue of Lenin and Mao

A lawyer from Florida drove to San Antonio, Texas, in an apparent attempt to destroy a 21ft-tall sculpture critiquing the Chinese Communist Party

Judge orders owner of mysterious African art collection in Houston to hand over works worth nearly $1m to settle legal dispute

The unusual move halted a court-ordered auction of around 1,400 objects for the second time in four months

Giant pigeon sculpture will land on New York's High Line this autumn

Iván Argote’s hyperrealist aluminium aviary statue will be perched on the High Line Plinth from October

American Museum of Natural History has repatriated more than 100 Native American human remains and 90 objects

The institution intensified its repatriation efforts after revised federal rules governing Native American remains and funerary objects went into effect earlier this year

Kyla McMillan is The Armory Show’s new director

McMillan joins as the New York City fair, which was acquired by Frieze last summer, prepares for its 30th anniversary edition in September

Getty’s PST Art initiative will open with a colossal Cai Guo-Qiang fireworks display

The artist’s daytime fireworks event, incorporating drones and artificial intelligence, will take place in and above the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on 15 September

New beginnings for public art programme at Newfields

More than a decade after it opened, the art and nature park at the Indianapolis institution has $3m in new funding and its first new show

Art is on the curriculum at The Campus, a former school in upstate New York transformed by six galleries

From former classrooms, locker rooms, labs, a gymnasium and an overgrown football field, art is present in nearly every space

New York City budget for 2025 restores $53m in cultural funding

The $112.4bn municipal budget for the coming fiscal year also restored $58m in critical funding for the city’s three library systems

After public vote, Los Angeles Natural History Museum’s star dinosaur fossil christened with unusual gname

The 75ft-long sauropod fossil will go on prominent display when the museum’s new entry pavilion opens this autumn

Cancelling Kehinde Wiley shows ‘does a disservice to the audiences’, anti-censorship group claims

The National Coalition Against Censorship is calling out museum leaders in Miami, Minneapolis and Omaha that cancelled or postponed Wiley’s exhibitions following sexual-assault allegations against him

MFA Boston director Matthew Teitelbaum will retire after ten-year stint

Teitelbaum has navigated one of the US’s most prominent art museums through a decade of renovations, revamped education initiatives, scandals and shutdowns

Florida hedge-fund manager building art park for prized Richard Serra sculpture

After abandoning a private museum project in Miami, Bruce Berkowitz will create a verdant art destination in the Florida panhandle

Judge dismisses Holocaust restitution claim to Guggenheim’s Blue Period Picasso

Karl and Rosi Adler’s heirs had claimed that “La repasseuse” (1904) had been sold under duress as the couple fled Nazi persecution

Leading New York gallerist Barbara Gladstone has died, aged 89

The dealer, who died in Paris “after a brief illness”, represented many of the most ambitious contemporary artists of the past half-century

Gagosian’s chief operating officer Andrew Fabricant leaves gallery

Fabricant’s wife Laura Paulson, a former Christie's rainmaker who helped launch Gagosian Art Advisory, has also left

US museums postpone Kehinde Wiley shows following series of sexual assault allegations against the artist

Exhibitions of the artist's work at museums in Florida, Minnesota and Nebraska have been postponed

Brooklyn Museum director’s home targeted by pro-Palestine activists

The entrance to museum director Anne Pasternak’s apartment building was vandalised with red paint and a banner describing her and the museum as a “White-Supremacist Zionist”

Amid backlash, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will modify exhibition on Hollywood’s Jewish founders

Organised in response to criticisms that its initial display did not acknowledge Hollywood’s Jewish origins, the exhibition now faces charges of antisemitism from Jewish activists

Photofairs' New York fair is cancelled until ‘market conditions improve’

The fair debuted in 2023 on the same dates and in the same building as The Armory Show

State officials will investigate sudden closure of Philadelphia’s University of the Arts as 600 workers are laid off

The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office is examining the circumstances surrounding the renowned school’s closure, and Philadelphia’s city council is planning hearings

Alleged ringleader of Canada’s ‘biggest art fraud’ pleads guilty

David Voss reportedly led a forgery operation that created more than 1,500 fake Norval Morrisseau works over 23 years

MFA Houston can keep Bernardo Bellotto painting sold to the Nazis, appeals court rules

The lawsuit stems from the accidental restitution of the wrong painting in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War

Legal fight brewing over Pérez Art Museum Miami’s digital billboard

Miami’s city commissioners voted to repeal a law passed last year to allow the museum to build an extra-large billboard